---
title: "Accessibility Checker Rule Help: Valerie_Noembed_HasContent"
---
import "../../../styles/ToolHelp.scss"
import { CodeSnippet, Tag } from "carbon-components-react";

<div className="toolHelp">
<Row>
<Column colLg={16} colMd={8} colSm={4} className="toolHead">

### Add descriptive text to the `<noembed>` element

<div id="locLevel"></div>

`<noembed>` elements should contain descriptive text

</Column>
</Row>
<Row>
<Column colLg={11} colMd={5} colSm={4} className="toolMain">

### Why is this important?

The content of the `<noembed>` element is provided to screen reader users or in browsers when an embedded object cannot be displayed. However, this is a deprecated element.

<div id="locSnippet"></div>

### What to do

 * The `<noembed>` element is deprecated and should be avoided. Use the `<object>` element instead of `<embed>` and use the body of the element to provide fallback content when the object does not load.

 For example:
 
<CodeSnippet type="multi" light={true}>&lt;object src="../movies/history_of_rome.mov" height="60" width="144" autostart="false"&gt;
        &lt;a href="../transcripts/transcript_history_rome.htm"&gt;Transcript of "The history of Rome"&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/object&gt;</CodeSnippet>

</Column>
<Column colLg={5} colMd={3} colSm={4} className="toolLeft">

### About this requirement

[IBM 1.1.1 Non-text content](https://www.ibm.com/able/requirements/requirements/#1_1_1)
[WCAG 2.1 technique H53](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/html/H53)
[WCAG 2.1 technique H46](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/html/H46.html)

### Who does this affect?

 * Blind people using a screen reader
 * People using text only, monochrome or braille displays
 * People using text-based browsers (e.g., Lynx) or audio interfaces
 * People who turn off image-loading on their web browsers

</Column>
</Row>
</div>

export default ({ children, _frontmatter }) => (<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>)
